When John meets Savannah, he realises he is ready to make some changes. Always the angry rebel at school, he has enlisted in the army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Now he`s ready to turn over a new leaf for the woman who has captured his heart.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4046-8
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
A moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines. Olly`s brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in Africa. He wants to be a clown and make them laugh. His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university. Hero, a swallow, has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult and fraught with danger. Three separate stories are woven into one powerful and moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war and of landmines, but also the endurance of the human spirit.
ISBN: 978-0-00-675333-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Homicidal maniac Dexter Morgan, narrator of the bestselling "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" and the inspiration for the Showtime series "Dexter," returns and must slip further into his foolproof domestic disguise to avoid the suspicions of Miami Police Sergeant Doakes.
ISBN: 9780307473714
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2010
With a rich man footing the bills and a handsome lover on the side, Isabel Kerr was taken care of well. When someone takes care of her in a more final sense, her murder is pinned on a detective friend of Nero Wolfe`s. Agreeing to help clear his buddy`s name, Wolfe winds up entertaining a party of fools and lovers connected with the doxy`s death.
ISBN: 978-0-553-27606-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller`s extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being `to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.`
ISBN: 978-0-14-118274-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Reginald Hill`s best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: `Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world` - Independent In Beddoes` play Death`s Jest-Book, the dead won`t lie still in the grave and the living often wish they could. And Reginald Hill`s novel is much the same - except perhaps for a few more jests. The dead-pan joker, Franny Roote, is working on his dead friend`s unfinished biography of Beddoes, and with unfinished business between himself and DCI Pascoe to deal with as well. Three times Pascoe has been wrong about Roote. This time he`s determined to leave no grave-stone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and...
ISBN: 978-0-00-731320-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Hailed as one of the world`s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as apassing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
ISBN: 0-553-21035-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Someone is killing off the competition in the world of chick lit-and the results are hilarious. (Andy Borowitz, author of The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers) Lola Somerville has a husband and a new apartment in Brooklyn, but what she really wants is for her novel to make a splash. Unfortunately it hasn`t even made a ripple. Then at a book party, Lola finds her author friend Mimi McKee with her throat slashed. When the bodies of It-Girl writers begin to pile up, Lola starts asking dangerous questions: Are the murders connected? Am I next? If not, um, why not? If I solve the mystery, then will my agent remember my name? As Lola digs deeper, the stakes grow higher. Will getting her hands on the killer - and the book deal bound to...
ISBN: 978-0-425-21524-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Linnet Ridgeway is, beautiful and clever. But she has enemies. When she is shot dead on a boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that detective Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7630-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In “Ivan Ilyich”, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes...
